Facets

1992

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1993

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

1993

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1994

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1994

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1994

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1994

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1994

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

1994

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1995

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995

#8058

International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.

1995

#8703

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.

1995

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

1995

#9929

La nutrition préhistorique.

1995

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

1995

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

1996

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1996

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1996

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

1996

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1997

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1997

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

1998

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1998

#9770

National Health Service: A political history.

Revised second edition, 2002.

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1998

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1998

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1999

#7535

Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.

1999

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.

1999

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1999

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

1999

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

1999

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

1999

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

2000

#7425

The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.

An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.

2000

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2000

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.